Population health management touches many areas of healthcare technology and patient care. There’s the need to access clinical data and crunch the numbers into meaningful insights. There’s the implementation layer, where analytics meet clinical care, providing intelligence that can lead to changes in patient care. And perhaps the most important element: reviewing changes to identify successes and build on them.
At HIMSS16, the Population Health Knowledge Center will bring together a diverse set of professionals who are able to share solutions at various stages. Eighteen presentations are scheduled for the exhibit floor theater, while other sessions are taking place in the educational programs.
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In the Population Health Knowledge Center, among the presentations are Lesli Adams, the director of population health at Oracle, who will present “Pop health – It all starts with the patient and providers epicenter” on Wednesday at 12:15 p.m.; Hossein Fakhrai-Rad, chief scientific officer of BaseHealth, will present “Health Analytics and Genomics in Population Health Management” on Wednesday at 1:45 p.m.; and Larry Schor, senior vice president of Medecision, will present along with Neil Kudler, CMIO at Baystate Health, during the session “Population Health is an Evidence-Based Team Sport” on Wednesday at 3:15 p.m.
Among the educational sessions at HIMSS16 looking at Population Health is “The Population Health Imperative: A Systematic Approach to Value.” It will review the core competencies that are crucial to population health success with a look at strategies that will help align resources to realize the best value. Mayo Clinic’s Jerry Sobolik, who currently serves as lead data and analytics support for the Enterprise Office of Population Health Management (OPHM), and Claudia Blackburn, Senior Manager, Population Health and Clinical Integration Center of Excellence for Aspen Advisors will present on Wednesday, at 8:30 am in the Palazzo I ballroom.
Many providers are only getting started with population health but the Military Health System is able to share a 15-year history of analytics and data integration. “MHS Population Health Analytics: 10 Years of Lessons Learned” will be presented by David Carnahan, chief of the Enterprise Intelligence Branch, Defense Health Agency HIT Directorate, and director of analytics and research in the Information Delivery Division of the Defense Health Agency; and Jesus J. Caban, chief of clinical & research informatics at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) at Walter Reed Bethesda, who oversees the development of the NICoE CMT Project – the Department of Defense’s most comprehensive database of service members that have sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The session will take place on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. in Palazzo D ballroom.
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